Job Summary

SC Ventures is Standard Chartered’s innovation, fintech investment and ventures arm. We were established to reinvent banking, as the significant technological disruptions to the industry was impacting its ability to serve clients and customers, in the ways they needed to be served.

We are a unique ecosystem of innovators, banking experts, business builders and partners who are focused on rewiring the DNA in banking and bringing breakthrough ideas to scale, together.

We are building ecosystems around four high conviction themes: Online Economy & Lifestyle, SMEs & World Trade, Digital Assets, and Sustainability & Inclusion.

We are a global team of "Members" (excluding individual ventures), including dedicated colleagues from the Group's support functions, based in Singapore, Hong Kong, London, and the United Arab Emirates.

Key Responsibilities

• Key responsibility is to play Application Delivery Lead role to support FinTech Bridge Platform.
• Work with vendor and Senior Team members to translate business requirements to technical solutions, establish delivery timelines and deliverables.
• Managing day-to-day activities of the vendor tech team/squad, including creating, problem solving, handling technical challenge and proving proper guidance and support to the technical team.
• End to end project technical road map, technical gaps and solutions.
• Manage & coach a team of tech developers
• Coordinate internal resources and vendors for the flawless execution of FinTech Bridge Platform.
• Ensure that the project(s) are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
• Report and escalate to management as needed.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.

Skills and Experience

• 12-20 years of delivery lead experience with hands-on experience in solutioning, developing & delivering agile projects (planning, execution and team management) as well as managing a team of tech developers
• Strong tech background and delivery track record, and eager to contribute actively within SC Venture community
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant computer science, engineering, information technology or related field.
• Entrepreneurial minded, strong analytical problem-solving skills, and an aptitude for learning systems quickly.
• Good working experience as technical delivery lead with in-depth knowledge of Programming (web, mobile, API, Database), DevOps, Cloud, infra, data and analytics technologies.   
• Extensive knowledge and experience with driving and applying user-centered design processes while working collaboratively with customers, along with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management and user research
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Excellent leadership and management skills

Qualifications

NA

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.